I am getting old

You get to a certain age and take a critical look around at the world and see how it has changed. Suddenly, a lot of the changes do not seem to make sense and you get nostalgic. I remember when:
• Most people could name more than 1 person in the Conservative party.
• You couldn’t buy anything on a Sunday and had a day to rest and recuperate from the week.
• The Labour party believed in socialism and democracy.
• Tesco stuck to what it was good at, and only sold food.
• Proper subjects were taught at school: science was not marginalised and combined into an amorphous mess but taught properly as distinct subjects. The school curriculum was not broken down into examinable chunks with no sense of cohesion between the parts.
• Vinyl was not a “collectable item” but contained an annoyingly short piece of music, scratched, warped or got dirty very easily, needed to be turned over every 20 minutes, and couldn’t be played easily in your car.
• Footballers tended to play in the country of their birth.
• ITV had never heard of rugby.
• Radio 1 had a decent Rock show.
• Cars were recognisably different, and had not all been designed to look exactly the same.
• The Scottish, Italian and Welsh rugby teams had people who were actually Scottish, Italian and Welsh, respectively.
• Celebrities had actually achieved something, or had some talent, before the public were interested in them.
• British democracy was not corrupt.
• An MPV was still known by its proper name of “minibus”.
• Drum machines were on less than half of all single releases.
• Prices were displayed on items in supermarkets, and bar codes were found in pubs only.
• Pubs concentrated on alcohol not food.
• River Island sold decent clothes.
• There was a noticeable difference between the main political parties.
• HMV was the cheap place to buy records.
• Breasts were generally naturally shaped.
• The EU had not started to ruin the national football teams by allowing anyone to play for any team.
• The BBC had not discovered costume drama on a Sunday night.
• Disney made endearing cartoons films rather than trying to take over the entire holiday entertainment and children’s television markets.
• Irish pubs were only found in Ireland.
• “Rights” were well understood and obvious, and followed common sense, rather than allowing anyone to do what they wanted.
• Reality shows and fly-on-the-wall documentaries were a novelty.
• BMW only made executive cars and had not tried to take over the world by making cars of every type imaginable.
• Parents found things to do with their children rather than sitting them in front of the television.
• The BBC’s televised cricket coverage was second to none.
• There were 4 channels with the occasional decent programme rather than 600 with the same amount of good material spread far more thinly.
• Rugby Special (with Nigel Starmer-Smith) and Ski Sunday were proper viewing for a Sunday night.
• Nobody was interested in the inside of a Coronation Street actor’s house.
• Cartoons were drawn by hand rather than using computer generated characters than do not look like anything on earth.
• Teachers and policemen engendered respect.
• Championship Manger and Football Manager had not taken away days of my life.
• The battle between computers was being won by the inferior ZX Spectrum over the Commodore 64.
• Models showing all their bones was not considered attractive.
• Abba were still recognised as being crap rather than retro-chic.
• League number 2 in England was not at the 4th level of football.
• School sports days were suitably competitive, children got exercise and left school with some modicum of fitness.